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Millimeter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Millimetre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
  • (2) At 1 month the rate of production of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha per square millimeter of surface area of experimental segments was normal.
  • (3) Fructose bisphosphatase, a gluconeogenic enzyme, is high along the major portion of the proximal tubule but plummets along the final millimeter of S3.
  • (4) The dimensions of the acetabular wall were thinner in the hips that had the thirty-two-millimeter component than in those that had the twenty-two-millimeter component (p less than 0.05).
  • (5) Although total survival rates were not improved in patients with the thickest lesions (those in excess of 3.0 millimeters) disease-free rates in these patients were considerably higher after ELND.
  • (6) Postoperative APR improved to 86.3 millimeters of mercury and ABI to 0.63 (p less than 0.05).
  • (7) In the presence of peripheral vasodilatation, adequate blood flow can be expected after such bypass grafts at blood pressures as low as 80 millimeters of mercury and hypotension per se does not produce vascular steal.
  • (8) Associated with this increase in epidermal wet weight is a two times increase in the number of epidermal cells per millimeter of interfollicular epidermis.
  • (9) There was a continuous relation between the incidence of stroke and the severity of mitral annular calcification; each millimeter of thickening as shown on the echocardiogram represented a relative risk of stroke of 1.24 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.12 to 1.37; P less than 0.001).
  • (10) Varus loosening of two millimeters or more was associated with lower evaluation scores.
  • (11) The greatest reduction in contact area occurred during the initial one millimeter of lateral displacement, the average reduction being 42 per cent.
  • (12) Administration of dexamethasone to the mother significantly increased total leukocyte and neutrophil counts (leukocytes per cubic millimeter blood) and decreased lymphocyte and eosinophil counts, but it did not change monocyte counts.
  • (13) In normal subjects, the left ventricular (LV) epicardial apex swung up to the base only a few millimeters, and the mitral annulus ring moved about 14 mm as mean value toward the apex during systole.
  • (14) The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cell count ranged from 150 to 1500 leukocytes per cubic millimeter, with a mean eosinophil percentage of 38.
  • (15) By infusing 350 to 500 milliliters of dextran 60 on day one or two postoperatively, the cardiac output was elevated about one-third, the central venous pressure increased from 0.9 to 4.9 millimeters of mercury and the portal venous pressure increased from 7.8 to 9.7 millimeters of mercury.
  • (16) In the first group of six dogs, reinfusion was carried out without delay; in a second group of six dogs, hypovolemia was continued for two hours, during which time the arterial pressure was permitted to rise in response to intact cardiovascular reflexes; in a third group of eight dogs, the mean arterial pressure was artificially maintained at 40 millimeters of mercury for two hours, initially by further bleeding.
  • (17) The diameters of the right ventricular infundibulum, pulmonary trunk, and the entirety of the right and left pulmonary arteries were measured (in millimeters), corrected for magnification, and expressed in standard deviation units (Z-values).
  • (18) By appropriate multivariate statistical analyses, about 95 per cent of the variance in results of surgery (expressed as change in deviation from preoperative to the postoperative time in prism diopters per millimeter of surgical correction) could be accounted for.
  • (19) Total and distal OR measurements (measured in millimeters of mercury per milliliter per minute) were divided into four groups each for all infrainguinal bypasses combined and for FP and FD bypasses separately.
  • (20) Large randomly selected fields were analyzed to determine the number of capillaries per square millimeter of fiber area (capillary density), per 1,000-microns 2 area of each muscle fiber (capillary index), and in 100 x 100-microns grid squares.

Millimetre


Definition:

  • (n.) A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Medical and surgical therapy will be adapted to this millimetric scale.
  • (2) Seven incontrovertible arguments show that the only valid measurement unit for elastic stockings is the millimetre of mercury and not a grading system.
  • (3) Blood rheologic properties (blood and plasma viscosity, packed cell volume, erythrocyte aggregation rate and deformability) were examined in 40 patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers during a relapse and after treatment with millimetric electromagnetic waves (21) and medication (19).
  • (4) However, although the former have larger tuberculin reactions, the difference is still so small (of the order of a few millimetres) that the tuberculin reaction cannot be used in practice to differentiate the two groups.
  • (5) An ultrasound Doppler system capable of measuring flow velocities of one millimetre per second in the presence of one thousand times stronger interfering signals is described, as well as test results using both thread and flow phantoms.
  • (6) Their axon and its collaterals were very fine and sometimes measured several millimetres.
  • (7) Unless they are furnished with an adequate blood supply and a means of disposing of their waste products by a mechanism other than diffusion, solid tumours cannot grow beyond a few millimetres in diameter.
  • (8) When measuring ridge reduction, the standard deviation was 0.21 millimetres.
  • (9) If the balloon diameter exceeds the measured vessel diameter by 1 or 1.5 millimetres, vessel overdilatation may reach up to 70% of the original size.
  • (10) The number of intraepithelial T lymphocytes per millimetre of surface epithelium was significantly higher in untreated than in treated CD patients or controls; it was also significantly higher in specimens with epithelial DP expression than in those without.
  • (11) This program was added to the software of a GE 8800 CT scanner to perform the following operations: millimetre precise calculation and display of the rectilinear coordinates of a target identified on axial CT images; preplotting of phantom target trajectories on the CT images or electronic radiographs; calculation of probe angles required to achieve various trajectories; display of a coordinate scale on each CT image to allow direct target determination without mathematical calculations; calculation of the intercommissural plane for functional neurosurgery.
  • (12) The polar recesses, superior and inferior to lumbar facet joints, are filled by fat pads from which fat-filled synovial folds project between the articular surfaces for a distance of two to four millimetres.
  • (13) In Awassi sheep, the total number of wool follicles per square millimetre was affected significantly by age, sex, and type of birth.
  • (14) The average numbers of microfilariae and onchocercal punctate opacities per square millimetre were assessed.
  • (15) It was two millimetres or more in radiocarpal joint and it got bigger in dorsal and smaller in volar flexion.
  • (16) With a thickness of less than one thousandth of a millimetre, the “glass” (it’s really a film) transmits light visible to the human eye, while selectively capturing and converting ultraviolet and near-infrared light into electricity to power a mobile device and extend its battery life.
  • (17) Shortening of 15 to 20 millimetres at the fracture site was well compensated for by accelerated growth.
  • (18) The technique and instruments of PAP, Krompecher and Jaros allow a precise preparation of the femoral head, acetabulum, femoral condyles and tibial plateau in the donor and recipient for the application of homograft transplants of joint articular surfaces of 5 millimetre thickness.
  • (19) Nearly two-thirds of the patients had overgrowth of the femur of 10 millimetres or more.
  • (20) Lukaku was millimetres from connecting with Deulofeu’s inviting cross to the far post while another Everton substitute, the impressive Muhamed Besic, drew a finger-tip save from Lloris with a volley from 18 yards.

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